redditors Assemble in Over 300 cities for GrMD III & Announcing rDDOS

This Saturday was the 3rd Annual Global reddit Meetup Day and by our non-scientific estimates, there were over350 different meetups in 70 countries, with approximately 10,000 attendants, which is roughly double last year’s turnout.

Check out all the amazing pics, videos, and DailyDot’scoverage. Big shout out to our “horrible” friends at Cards Against Humanity for sending out cards to a lot of the meetups. Big thanks to everyone at /r/SanFrancisco, /r/Chicago, /r/NYC, /r/Houston, /r/LosAngeles, /r/LondonSocialClub, /r/LasVegas, /r/Portland, and /r/Alaska for showing us admins a good time. We must note however, that we were concerned by the number of horsehead masks. Seriously, you all are going to open a damn vortex if you aren’t careful.

/r/halifax meetup

If you missed out on the fun or want to start planning for next year, Global reddit Meetup Day IV will take place on Saturday June 15th, 2013.Hopefully this date will work better for the redditors celebrating midsummer. We are already looking forward to next year!

We also want to announce a new global meetup event — reddit Dedicated Day of Service (rDDoS), which will be held on September 21, 2012 September 22, 2012. It’ll be just like GrMD except replace the drinking with cleaning up local rivers, blood drives, fixing up computers at local schools, or whatever else makes sense in your community. We’ll have some various fun contests and things to encourage participation, but we’ll leave it up to local communities and the mods of the realms to figure out what a “dedicated day of service” means in your area. Find your local subreddit HERE and discuss.